THE SOUTHE 



RN PLANTER, 



Flies will never be done teaz'mg ; moths 

 ./ill not be persuaded away, grubs and 

 worms of every name will crawl and 

 have a living 1 out of men's crops ; cows 

 xvill calve, and until the sun goes down 

 for the last time, the calf will resemble 

 the parents ; orchards are yet to be plant- 

 ed, fruit to be plucked, to be saved, 

 green or dry, for winter's use. To the 

 end of time, there will be men born who 

 will have to learn how to manage clay 

 soils, and sand soils, and rocky soils ; there 

 will be large farms and little farms, and 

 fences around them, and houses on them, 

 and families in them, and housewives will 

 have to cook what men like to eat ; there 

 will be clothes to make, and to wear out. 

 Why, what on earth do you suppose men 

 want you to write upon but these very 

 subjects — these plain, practical, every-day 

 matters about household, barnhold and 

 farmhold affairs ? But you reply, every 

 body knows these things. I beg your 

 pardon, every body don't know about 

 them. For mercy's sake, just come with 

 me to the next plantation to your own ! 

 Did you ever go there without seeing and 

 thinking of two things. 1st. I could tell 

 that man something about his manage- 

 ment, if he would not get angry. 2d. 

 And the other thing is, " well, there is 

 something I'll remember and improve on." 



There is not a farmer on earth, no mat- 

 ter if his farm is in Hardscrabble itself, 

 but may teach you something. If he is 

 a good farmer be will imitate something ; 

 if a bad one, you will avoid some prac- 

 tice, which never before seemed so excep- 

 tionable. You cannot go to any neigh- 

 bor's without finding a variety of practice, 

 arising from good reasons or bad. You 

 talk about these things. These very things 

 which you say are too common to put on 

 paper are the very things which you dis- 

 cuss among yourselves whenever, any ga- 

 thering in your neighborhood brings you 

 together. Don't be ashamed of common 

 things. If some men hunted as they 

 wish to write, they would not take a com- 

 mon fowling-piece to kill a squirrel, but 

 would harness up a span of horses and 

 drag a twelve-pounder about through the 

 woods, load her untouch her off, and be 



tickled enough, if it made a thundering 

 noise, no matter whether it hit a tree, the 

 ground, or a squirrel. Gentlemen, our 

 little paper could not stand many twelve- 

 pounders. Pray give us a plenty of mus- 

 ket shots, and such like, and leave all 

 your thunders for election days and stump 

 speeches. 



Why, my sturdy old friend, who grum- 

 bles because farming papers are not prac- 

 tical enough, are you going to turn Egyp- 

 tian ? Do you mean we shall make 

 brick without straw 1 Why, your expe- 

 rience, and your neighbor's, and his neigh- 

 bor's, and everybody's neighbor's expe- 

 rience. An editor is a mere house-carpen- 

 ter ; he saws, and planes, and fits together 

 the materials for a house, but you must 

 put the materials into his hand ; he lives 

 in a sort of saw-mill ; you bring the logs 

 and he saws them up. Friends and 

 neighbors, if you will haul your logs, our 

 saw is all ready for work, — Western Planter 

 and Gardener. 



FENCING. 



Fencing forms an important arid a trouble- 

 some item in the expenses and the labor of 

 every farmer. Even among ourselves, where 

 wood may be obtained for so little, the expense 

 of procuring the materials and the time taken 

 up in putting them together forms a heavy 

 out-go from every farmer's purse. Every de- 

 vice which may render this less, is worthy of 

 notice at least. We published in our last 

 number the letter of a correspondent of the 

 Prairie Farmer, who seems to be much pleased 

 with a fence of iron wire, and we find 

 that such fences are becoming quite common 

 in England and Scotland. Factories are in 

 operation in Edinburgh and Glasgow for mak- 

 ing the wire, &c, most proper for this species 

 of barrier. Messrs. Young, the manufacturers, 

 have published a pamphlet, with descriptions 

 of various kinds of gates and fences and their 

 cost. The following are extracts: 



Iron and wire fence 3 feet 6 inches high, 

 having wrought iron straining posts If 

 inch square, every 75 yards, complete with 



